Blog (A5E) Level Up: All About Prestige

Every adventurer in Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition has a Prestige rating. Prestige is a rating of how famous (or infamous) a character is. Adventurers start play with a Prestige of 0 and gain Prestige when moving to new tiers of play at levels 5, 11, and 17, when acquiring strongholds, and from accomplishing great deeds during play.

All About Prestige — Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition (A5E)

Prestige is a rating of how famous (or infamous) a character is.

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[Lieslo]

In the example given isn't Zidi's DC 16 (12 plus double the tier which is 2) or am I reading it incorrectly?

 

[Morrus]

In the example given isn't Zidi's DC 16 (12 plus double the tier which is 2) or am I reading it incorrectly?

Good catch!

 

[TheRustyOne]

This is a fantastic idea. The full game can't come out soon enough.

 

[tetrasodium]

Very cool, it's going to be have some kinda mechanic better than falling back onto mere diplomancy for this kind of calling in favors soft power type stuff

 

[Stalker0]

The concept is interesting and has merit.

I'm curious how much prestige you gain at the various tiers. I assume it scales up a bunch, to me a level 17th character should at absolute minimum have a prestige of 8 in your system, maybe even a 9.

 

[Faolyn]

Interesting! What sort of things increase (or decrease) prestige, and generally by how much?

 

[Morrus]

I'm curious how much prestige you gain at the various tiers. I assume it scales up a bunch, to me a level 17th character should at absolute minimum have a prestige of 8 in your system, maybe even a 9.

If they've accomplished a few things and been awarded Prestige by the Narrator, and have a stronghold, sure. What you do in the game will affect your Prestige. If you do nothing at all, the baseline is 1 per tier.

 

[Argyle King]

Kinda cool. It's similar to what I already do in my home games.

I keep track of a "reputation score" for the characters. It's not something which I give numbers to the players about, but it's based on things they can perceive.

If you have a positive reputation in a town, village, area, whatever - it's easier to gain access to certain people and things. If you have a negative reputation with a particular town, group, guild, or whatever - it's more difficult to gain access to certain people and things.

 

[imagineGod]

Kinda cool. It's similar to what I already do in my home games.

I keep track of a "reputation score" for the characters. It's not something which I give numbers to the players about, but it's based on things they can perceive.

If you have a positive reputation in a town, village, area, whatever - it's easier to gain access to certain people and things. If you have a negative reputation with a particular town, group, guild, or whatever - it's more difficult to gain access to certain people and things.

Great idea. Though do you track this for each faction or is there a universal Prestige instead?

Your individually team reputation with each faction is fun for Players but tons of work for the GM.

I remember in the computer game Pillars of Eternity. in one town there ae two warring factions, and if you take a quest for one then your reputation with the other takes a hit and you lose access to the other quest